Locating localism : statecraft, citizenship and democracy /
Locating localism explores the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft and its implications for the practice of citizenship. Drawing on original research, Jane Wills highlights the importance of having the civic infrastructure and capacity to facilitate the engagement of citizens in loca...
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- LOCATING LOCALISM
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the argument being made in this book
- 1. Making sense of localism
- What is localism?
- Emergent forms of top-down and bottom-up localism in England today
- Challenges to localism
- The emergence of localism as a political vision for change
- Localism and reform since 2010
- 2. The geo-constitution and the long history of localism
- Crown, church and local government
- The drive for standardisation via centralisation
- Small steps in the development of localism
- The political and cultural legacy and its challenge to localism
- Taking the long view of localism
- 3. The place of the people
- Public engagement in political life
- Localist institution building for political voice and civic engagement
- State-led localism and the missing community
- Localism's missing social and civic infrastructure
- 4. Localist local government
- Adopting a cooperative approach to government in Lambeth
- Localist lessons from Lambeth
- 5. Institution building for localist futures
- Neighbourhood planning in its wider context
- Research in three different locations
- 6. Community organising: past, present and future
- Chicago, sociology and Back of the Yards
- Community organising, the English way
- 7. A localist future?
- Appendix: Research design and methods
- 1 Poplar Neighbourhood Community Budget, 2012-13 (Chapter Three)
- 2 Lambeth Council's Community Based Commissioning project, 2014-15 (Chapter Four)
- 3 Neighbourhood planning in Exeter St James, Devon, Holbeck in Leeds, and Highgate in London, 2013-15 (Chapter Five)
- 4 Citizens UK, 2001-15 (Chapter Six)
- References
- Index.
